Dear BMVA member

   This message is intended to seek input from people who are currently 
engaged in teaching Computer Vision or related subjects to advanced 
undergraduate or postgraduate students.  If you are not engaged in this 
kind of teaching, it probably doesn’t apply to you and you need read no 
further.  If you are engaged in these activities, we would like some 
input from you.  You are almost certainly aware that there is an annual 
Computer Vision Summer School, sponsored by the BMVA, and which in 
recent years has been financially supported by EPSRC. The Summer 
School’s remit is to ensure that graduate research students and other 
early-stage researchers in image-related topics receive a broadly-based 
education in current machine vision methods.  This year the Summer 
School will take place in Kingston University on 12-16 July 2010.  We 
have been given the remit by the BMVA executive committee of reviewing 
the Summer School content as part of a new submission to EPSRC to 
support the event.
   As part this process we would like to solicit views from the 
community on what material should be taught at the summer school and to 
identify individuals who might be willing to teach on it.  Clearly the 
Summer School has a well established body of content, and we have our 
own ideas on how this could be revised.  We have also had input from the 
BMVA executive committee.  However, there may be limits to the wisdom 
and insight of even the BMVA executive committee, so we would welcome 
answers to the following questions:
   1.	Do you feel strongly that there are certain topics that a research 
student in this area should be taught?  Please let us know in as much 
detail as you feel able.  We might be covering it already, or we might 
not have thought of it.  Either way, your input will be valuable.
   2.	Do you currently teach a suitable topic in Computer Vision?  Could 
your current material be used for a summer school lecture, perhaps with 
some modification?  If so would you be willing to teach this material? 
This is possibly even more useful if you have the material for a good 
lab exercise.  Keep in mind that the audience is PhD students.
   3.	If you don’t currently teach in Computer Vision, but have good 
ideas for what you might teach and how, we’d like to hear that as well.
   4.	Do you know of someone else who has some good material but may be 
a little diffident in volunteering?  We could be gently persuasive.

   It is important to realize that what we are looking for is quality 
teaching material.  The point of the Summer School is not particularly 
to present students with the latest inspirational research.  That kind 
of thing is valuable, of course, and happens elsewhere.  Our goal is to 
make sure that students receive a good understanding of the basics of 
Computer Vision across as wide a range of topics as we can muster.  We 
will be seeking to create a new programme based on your answers to the 
above.
   Please send your responses to Jim Graham 
([log in to unmask]). by 22nd March 2010.  Thank you in advance 
for your input.

Best Wishes
Jim Graham, Dimitrios Makris, Adrian Clark







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